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I searched "The Burton Case of Hysteria and Other Phenomena" on google.

A direct link to the article within the volume 5 of JASPR at google books was the second link down. You can read on line from that link.


http://books.google.com/books?id=GHUYAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA289&lpg=PA289&dq=The+Burton+Case+of+Hysteria+and+Other+Phenomena&source=bl&ots=iciXerVFRb&sig=1zbf60xX3dl5qm9HbtpAvVyiNOE&hl=en&ei=pSojTqrLKszEsQLI3LieAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAQ


You can download the entire volume in pdf or text from links near the top of the page. My experience with google books is that you get better results downloading the pdf which is usually page images. Then print to a file in fax format (tiff, .tif) and then do the ocr yourself, if you have the software, converting tiff to txt. Your mileage may vary.

Interesting post, Michael!

jshgfcre98ijyds,

I couldn't found the entire volume for download. Could you put a direct link to it?

And do you know the links for download of the others volumes?

pdf:

http://books.google.com/books/download/Journal_of_the_American_Society_for_Psyc.pdf?id=GHUYAQAAIAAJ&output=pdf&sig=ACfU3U2g-jhJ1SI7sjvSqY61q61aUVudgw

plain text - (to read on-line not download)

http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA289&lpg=PA289&dq=The+Burton+Case+of+Hysteria+and+Other+Phenomena&sig=1zbf60xX3dl5qm9HbtpAvVyiNOE&ei=pSojTqrLKszEsQLI3LieAw&ct=result&id=GHUYAQAAIAAJ&ots=iciXerVFRb&output=text

JASPR at google books:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=G&tbo=1&tbm=bks&q=editions:t9QLAAAAIAAJ


jshgfcre98ijyds,

I sill can't do the download. I think only people in USA can do the download. When I click the link I get a message of error:

404. That’s an error.
The requested URL /books/download/Journal_of_the_American_Society_for_Psyc.pdf?id=GHUYAQAAIAAJ&output=pdf&hl=en&capid=AFLRE70PoFWPd9o6nD1HUJo-VRXdHL0-M4-1LSQatY2HRBT15AstpCJPo5ZpYfDGXeDsSDVJYEO6Gydh0wOZIEk7cECGlYCR5oyHwjrhBDaFBK41LuztA3s&captcha=exervit was not found on this server. That’s all we know.

Could you put the files in www.4shared.com and the news links here?

Or please, send the volumes 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16 to my email: [email protected]

Thanks for the links, You Whose Screen Name Is Too Hard To Type.

I didn't know any of these journals were on Google Books.

Hi Michael,

Do those links work for you?

Hi Vitor,

I've had problems with other people (someone from Tiwan) not being able to use google books links before, that's why I wrote in my first e-mail about the google search I did and the placement of the search result. (I wasn't trying to snide about how easy it is to find them)

I can't send you those files. I have a slow dial up internet service and my "unliminted service" cuts off after 200 hours per month and I often near the limit. Downloading all those books would take up too many hours.

Maybe someone else can help you.

The only thing I can suggest is that you try to find the documents using a google search from your own computer - you probably already tried that though so I don't know what else to say.

In case it helps...

I found the link to all the volumes by clicking on a link that said something like "more editions" when I got the first response to my google search.

The link for the pdf download shows up in the upper right region of the page when you look at a single page in the book. It is just a link that says "PDF".

There also might be discussion forums on the internet about google books you could try posting there and asking for help.

I wish I could be of more help ... sorry.


Someone in this blog could send me the volumes? Please?:-)

If the size of the file is too big, use this link: http://www.mailbigfile.com/free/

Hi Vitor,

I forgot, but just remembered, some of the public domain books at google books are also at internet archive.

I don't know if every thing at google books is at internet archive but it looks like some of them are. This link includes proceedings as well as the journal ....


http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=American%20Society%20for%20Psychical%20Research

If you can get to these books, you might try some different searches, the volumes books might be there but not labeled exactly the same way.

I get the volumes 1, 2, 7, 14, 15 from archive.org. The others I couldn't find.

Hi Vitor,

There is a forum at archive.org, for example...

http://www.archive.org/post/349360/adding-a-google-book-to-archiveorg

Maybe someone there would be willing to upload them for you.

I wrote there, but still no answer. This can help:
http://www.aboutonlinetips.com/google-books-downloader/

Hi me again.
I was just wondering Michael have you read any pro-darwinism/anti-ID books, and or books on evolution?

"have you read any pro-darwinism/anti-ID books, and or books on evolution?"

Yes, I've read some of Dawkins' books and no doubt others, though it's been a while since I read anything on the subject.

"Do those links work for you?"

I only tried the first link you posted. It works for me. The Download button works too.

Wow..Nice Blog, Nice tips, Great article!, I have recently started a blog, the information you provide on this site has helped me tremendously. Thank you for all of your time & work. :)

Interesting post, Michael. Brings to mind Deborah Blum's excellent account of Eusapia Palladino, which helped me to understand how fraud and genuine ability could co-exist.

"fraud was unconscious, and furthermore it was associated exclusively with the left hand, and never with the right."

I wonder if this is connected in any way to this (as stated in Wikipedia):

"Historically, the left side, and subsequently left-handedness, was considered negative in many cultures. The Latin word sinistra originally meant "left" but took on meanings of "evil" or "unlucky" by the Classical Latin era, and this double meaning survives in European derivatives of Latin, and in the English word "sinister".

"Wow..Nice Blog, Nice tips, Great article!"

So I checked you out and I see that you are, in fact, THE Annie Leibowitz. So welcome, Annie!

But TIPS? I don't see 'em! You mean as in "What to pack for the afterlife?"

:o)

Bruce, I think the Tips might be what to expect in the Afterlife. I'm sure everyone who visits here will stroll in quite blasé through the tunnel, etc. The only thing that still troubles me is how to avoid a few deceased relatives that I'm not so anxious to meet again. I'm still stumped on that one.

"I see that you are, in fact, THE Annie Leibowitz."

Yeah, and I'm the Duke of Wales. But don't tell anyone. Kate just hates it when I blog.

"Interesting post, Michael. Brings to mind Deborah Blum's excellent account of Eusapia Palladino, which helped me to understand how fraud and genuine ability could co-exist."

My understanding is that some of Eusapia's fraud was conscious and deliberate.


http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/seance/78/eusapia.htm

"It was the sitting by Howard Thurston, a renowned professional magician, that demonstrates an excellent example of Eusapia's behaviour and supports Carrington's view mentioned above. Carrington took Thurston to Eusapia for a seance and as soon as it began, the two men observed Eusapia had lifted the table with her toe. Carrington shook his head and said, 'Not good, Eusapia'. Then: 'She thereupon smiled also, settled down in her chair, went into a light trance, and soon produced a series of perfectly magnificent genuine levitations, which so convinced Thurston that he came out in the papers the next day with a thousand-dollar challenge to any magician who could produce table levitations under the same conditions. The challenge was never accepted'. The reality was: 'The mischievous, impish self of the medium trying to "pull something", just for fun, and when she saw that she could not get away with it with impunity, she then produced the genuine article.(21)"

"(21)H. Carrington, Op. Cit.,, rev. (Cranbury, NJ: A. S. Barnes, 1973), pp.32-33."

"My understanding is that some of Eusapia's fraud was conscious and deliberate."

You're absolutely right. That makes the Burton case quite different.

Annie is okay with a camera, right ? :-)

Hi,

This is off topic but might be of interest to readers here...

I just listened to a free audio meditation program available at:


http://copingstrategiescd.com/

It is offered to the public as a system for treating post traumatic stress. Anyone can listen free on line, a free cd is available for individuasl affiliated with the military, other individuals can purchase a cd.

However to me it seems like a pretty good system of spiritual development.

It's slightly over one hour long, and consists of a guided mindfulness meditation followed by a discussion. It seems to be aimed at releasing negative emotions and the development of positive traits like forgiveness, patience, and tolerance.

Why is this spiritual development? Anything that makes you more fit for the higer levels in the spirit world contributes to your spiritual development.

I think it is influenced by buddhism which is how most westerners become acquainted with mindfulness meditation but I don't think this is mentions in the program. There is a bit of religion but I don't think athiests would be offended since the program is presented as a practical method of learning to think differently about your emotions.

I've only listened once but two things in the cd I disagree with are.

1) They are dismissive of chemical balance theories of psychological states. I think these are useful. You don't have to accept them as limiting but I don't think they should be ignored either.

2) It says to avoid imaginary converstaions. I think controlling your thinking is necessary during meditation, but outside meditation, in my opinion you need a balance between "free thinking" "letting out emotions" vs. trying to think correctly all the time.

On the whole I highly recommend the program.

An article about the cd can be found here:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=319737

Mr Presott,

Kindly do not refer to me as the Duke of Wales. I am the Duke of Cambridge, or Wills, to you.

"I just listened to a free audio meditation program available at:


">http://copingstrategiescd.com/"


Evidently, this is by Roy Masters. I hadn't heard of him until now. Some more links....


http://www.fhu.com/index2.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Masters_(commentator)

The meditation is good but not unique. What I really like about the program is the discussion part. It brings together ideas from various places and puts them together in one place.

There are so many voices on our society advocating negative and selfish values - the news media, the entertainment industry, marketing, sales, advertising etc, that I am always looking for things, like this audo program, that remind me about positive values. That's one of the reasons that in the past I've enjoyed going to Spiritualist church services and dharma talks at the local zen center.

It's so easy to sink into the ordinary self centered mindset and rare to find ways to raise yourself above it.

HRH is correct. He is the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge. My apologies to him, his family, and his loyal subjects.

Mr Prescott,

The Prince of Wales is my dear father,
Charles.

I am Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.

You will never get your knighthood at this rate.

Prince Charles is the Prince of Wales . Prince William is the Duke of Cambridge.
Neither has any subjects as they are not the monarch (yet !:))

Huh. Well, I got it wrong again.

I guess I'd better stick to talking about American stuff.

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